Disputes Quotes

301 quotes by 261 authors

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come… — Saint Augustine
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud… — Ambrose Bierce
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? — Lara Flynn Boyle
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to… — James Buchanan
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. — James Buchanan
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. — Dalai Lama
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of… — Dinesh D'Souza
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties. — Alexander Pope
Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in… — William Gurnall
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. — Chris Matthews
War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for… — Alfred Hermann Fried
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance,… — John F. Kennedy
When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams… — Niccolo Machiavelli
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons. — Dalai Lama
The dispute is still before the judge. — Horace
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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